InfoWorld reports:

Google has enhanced its enterprise search device, doubling its capacity and adding new query capabilities.

The Search Appliance's maximum capacity has been increased to 30 million documents, up from 15 million, Google announced Tuesday. The increased capacity comes via a software upgrade that also includes search query enhancements.

The intermediate model, the GB-5005, has a 10 million document capacity, while the entry model, the GB-1001, starts at US$30,000 and can index up to 3 million documents.

I think this is one success path for webapps -- selling them directly into the enterprise.

From a Datasphere perspective, there's a few things to note:

• by merging data + presentation, when we find a document we've often found the data
• by using weblog presentation to refer to a proprietary document (using attachments/enclosures controlled by a blog CMS), we have a well defined bridge from the HTML world to the proprietary data world

I was going to write something here about searching vs. tagging vs. directories, but suffice it to say that they each bring something to the table and all are required components of the datasphere. (Interesting note: the weakest structuring part of the blogosphere is the directory; thanks to Google, the strongest is the search).